Success
Damian:
Pastor
in charge of Grace and Mercy Restoration
Ministry (Arena of Holy Ghost), Ijedodo, Ijegun Lagos, Pastor (Mrs) Tessy Chika Nwokedi, has urged Nigerians to learn to
give.
Pastor
Nwokedi made the call at the 2nd Harvest of Grace 2019 & Thanksgiving Service of her church
on Sunday.
She
said, “If the people of Nigeria, individuals, cooperatives, communities,
villages can come together and understand that the lord has giving us to give
out, let us learn how to give to our neighbors. He said if you have given to
your neighbor, you have given to me; says the lord. It is not when you call the whole world to
showcase what you have done. Your neighbor is the one that is close to you,
when you feed him, you have fed me. I am telling them to learn how to give out,
no matter how little,” She stated.
Pastor Nwokedi also stated that her ministry is not where people come and go
empty handed, but a ministry where people come and they are fed.
“I
said always, before I agree to enter into this ministry, I told God, it is not
going to be a ministry of coming and going, the ministry will be to come and
eat, go home with something, something that when you go home even if it
sustains you for a day.”
She
further stated “I have been to several evangelisms and someone said, mama I am
hungry, I can’t hear you. I gave her
money to go and eat, after eating she still came back and say mama now I can hear
you. It gave me a room to understand that the ministry I am entering into is a
ministry you will come and eat. Indeed you cannot talk to a hungry man, when
you are talking to a hungry man, you are talking trash, they say a hungry man
is an angry man, so what you are talking is rubbish.
“But
when that person is fit physically, the spiritual can enter. You can now speak
and he will hear you. As I am here now, they are telling me mama, we are the
widows, because they know they are going home with something,” she said.
During the Thanksgiving which
has the theme “The Goodness of God”, many people went home with various gift
items ranging from golden wrist watches, quality 3-in-1mobile phone chargers,
phone airtime cards, rice, yam tubers, not forgetting cooked food, water and
soft drinks that were shared to all free.
Speaking
on the mammoth crowd that graced the service at the two months old church, she
said it surpassed her expectation. “I did not believe my eyes, I thank God,
people that were invited; they all honoured the invitation.”
On
her view of thanksgiving she stated “Thanksgiving is all about saying God I
thank you. We are in the month of November and the month of November is the 11th
month of the year, so we are just saying God thank you from January, February,
March, everything He has done, and I am
saying God I thank you, that is Thanksgiving. When you thank Him the more, he
will do more. It is all about appreciating God for what he has done. When you
say God thank you for giving me one, He will give you two, you say thank you
for the two, he will give you hundred, because he knows you have the heart of
thanks.
“There
are people that have this problem, they don’t know how to say thank you, if you know how to say it, definitely, the sky
is your stepping stone, because God will be blessing you the more,” Pastor
Nwokedi said.
She
also spoke on her husband’s characteristic generosity, saying she was short of
words. “I am short of words, when the prophecy came I doubted, but now, it has
been a prayer answered. I don’t know how to say that appreciative word to my
husband, God will bless him and keep us, that we live up to 120 years together
to take care of children God has given to us. I pray God to bless him. He is a
giver, I give also. You know giving is a gift, not everybody has the heart of
giving, and I say God will bless him,” she said.
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